'The Danger in Xi's Rebuff to Obama'

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Philip Stephens, The Danger in Xi's Rebuff to Obama. Financial Times, Mar 2, 2012 (columnist).
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/50a2c2 ... b-00144feabdc0.html

Quote:

When Xi visited White House: "The president [Obama] said they both had an interest in setting up a serious dialogue between the US and Chinese armed forces. * * * His [Xi's] response was blunt: No.

"The impression taken by US officials from the encounters was that once he is China’s president Mr Xi is likely to be tougher, more nationalist and closer to the military than Hu Jintao. This means that managing the most important relationship of the 21st century is unlikely to get any easier.

"A year or so ago, according to one US account, China’s military hawks came close to overturning the cautious approach of Beijing’s foreign policy establishment. They were held in check by Mr Hu and Dai Bingguo, the state councillor in charge of foreign affairs.

My comment:
(a) It appears there is no need to sign in, in order to read the column.
(b) The first sentence of the column says (right before quotation 1), "When Xi Jinping tipped up at the White House recently Barack Obama made a proposal."

I can not find the meaning of "tip up."
(c) 菲利普·斯蒂芬斯, 中美应展开军事对话. FT Chinese, Mar 2, 2012.
http://www.ftchinese.com/channel/english.html

What I do not understand is why the title is listed in the right column (whose heading is FT速读测试) of the web page. I did not sign in there.